Shattered bulb – a gunshot at my ear

Light out, deaf, spine twitches within fear

Kiss my cheek and twist my bitter tongue  

Betray sans extortion or malevolence.

Drop your opinion of me

into the well of our shared knowledge,

sink me in impotable water.

I don’t swim and won’t scream of you.

Then, step gingerly about broken glass, and mumble brief syllables about time. 

Single file tears from one eye, installments on our shared debts, marks on an endless ledger

To be burned, charred, incinerated, from and toward the sun.

I’ll not let the worms have their way, nor the beetle its prey, heavens no! Pray.

Release me into energy, and refuse the demands of foreign, clumsy recyclers.

Keep these ingredients from the baker, and deny the transformation which phases beg, to disinfect from raw material my contribution.

Cleanse you now with briefest rain, no more contaminants contained. No rusted bolts, impure alloys, or overdone casseroles.

In severing, it is rebuilt, in the snake’s shed, hides petty redemption, made worthy by 

parts unincluded and words left